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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "Adamu" (may be fake)
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 01:08:39 +0100
Subject: Hello

Hello,

My names are Adamu Chiroma Jr, the Deputy Chairman of NIGERIAN EXTERNAL AUDITORS ,
I am writing to make a very personal appeal even though it's business, I am ready attached some documents on request to prove Myself.

During the cause of auditing last weeks, we discovered some amount of money that was approved by some government officials for a contract
that was never executed while our president was out for his medical treatment in Saudi Arabia since last year, they just used the little power given
to them to plan these arrangements just to move money out of the government account but we intercepted the money while it was on transit to our
corresponding bank, in fact, we put a stop order as the auditors of the Nation, and from our investigation, we noticed some fowl play and now they cannot track the money.

We have decided to approach you so that we can divert this amount of
$12.200, 000 to any account that you could give to us, we have
Discussed among us here and jointly agreed to do this because, if we
do not divert this fund for our own personal use now that we have the
Opportunity/power to do so, the money will still end up into other
people's account, this is to show you the level of corruption in our
banks which is being backed by the top government officials and
business men.

We want you to keep this to yourself as we are sure that you may have
other peoples from around world who might be your friends or partners,
we want you to treat it as personal and to give us your answer
Immediately before we can explain to you how we have planed to work it out.

We have studied all the documents in the contract file and found out that all are backup with legal
documents, what we will only do now is to authenticate them in your favor.
below are list of documents in his file:
1,CERTIFICATE OF CONTRACT COMPLECTION
2, IMF/WORLD BANK CLEARANCE
3, MONEY LAUNDRY/ANTI-TERRORIST CERTIFICATE FROM THE UNITED NATION.
4, TAX CLEARANCE/STAMP DUTY CLEARANCE.
5, CENTRAL BANK APPROVAL/FUND ORIGIN CLEARANCE

All these documents are valid in the company's name, so we not have much work to do before the
money is paid into the account you will give us, I will forward you my number as soon as I get a favorable answer from
you, you can also send me your number to call you, this is very urgent
as it must be concluded within 2 weeks, you will take 30% of this
amount =$12.2M . Email me(ex.audit78@gmail.com)


Thanks for your co-operation.
Regards
Adamu

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